In the dining room, flat panel televisions tile the walls and dangle from the rafters, broadcasting everything from the nightly news to sports, sports and more sports. Competing for your attention on the menu are burgers, sandwiches, salads, ribs, seafood and, of course, wings — served with more than 14 sauces.

That alone is a lot to take in, but add on a dining room packed with rowdy families and rows of high chairs as far as the eye can see, and you can start to feel overwhelmed. If you happen to be a family with babbling babies or tearful toddlers, Buffalo Wild Wings is your nirvana.

Between the pop music in the background and the thunderous din of conversations around you, it’s all but impossible to pick out exactly which child is screaming his cute little head off.

But if you’re in the childless minority, well, you might want to start your meal with a stiff drink from the bar — and maybe a couple of aspirin.

This sports bar opened in The Forum in east Fort Myers last November and hordes of people have been gathering there ever since. I stopped by around the time of the restaurant’s debut, but I wasn’t patient enough to sit through the hour-plus wait.I dropped by again early one Sunday evening to find a surprising, but much more doable 20-minute wait.

At BWW — or B-Dubs if you’re cool, which I’m not — they pack diners in like sardines. Our party of five hunched around a table designed for four, while, one spot over, four adults and two high chairs shared a space the same size.

There’s a full bar and even a few wines, but Buffalo Wild Wings is best known for its vast selection of craft beers. Be careful, though. There are no prices on the drink menu and those brews can run you $6 per glass or more.

Food-wise, the namesake wings are the main attraction, but I can’t say I was overly impressed. Our wings were on the puny side. The skin was often fatty, lacking that crispiness and bite I so love in a good chicken wing.

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The sauces helped. I was a fan of the ginger-infused Asian Zing and of the classic mild, medium and hot varieties, but the mango habanero packed more sweet than heat, and the chipotle BBQ dry rub just fell flat for me.

There were also steak sliders — a little dry, but otherwise tasty — and a basket of tangy, crunchy fried pickle chips. Almost everything at BWW is served in cardboard trays or paper-lined baskets, which makes clean-up easy when table space is limited. For entrees we shared a large basket of popcorn shrimp with fluffy, well-seasoned potato wedges on the side. There were perfunctory corn dogs and, after a couple of botched orders, there were the grilled chicken buffalitos — their fancy term for tacos.

We ordered our buffalitos with the special Thai curry sauce and we were not disappointed. The grilled chicken kept the dish light, while the savory, well-balanced Thai curry added a note of the exotic.

Our dinner took a little over two hours. That included the aforementioned order mix-ups, and an extraneous charge on the bill that took an extra 10 minutes to resolve. I felt overwhelmed when I first walked into the flashing, clamorous dining room; our waiter, while nice, seemed to share the sentiment.

Buffalo Wild Wings isn’t for everyone. But if you have children, love sports, and enjoy great beers and decent bar food, this place has it all going on.